Description: Common to This Country
Botanical Discoveries of Lewis & Clark

The Lewis & Clark expedition will always be the central narrative
of American expansion, as long, that is, as we allow ourselves to
feel its imaginative power. Common to this Country reminds
us once again of the scientific stature of this great expedition
as well as its romantic freshness. Many of the plants Lewis
described and collected, including those featured in this book,
are now to familiar to us that it is hard to imagine them being
newly discovered.

Our gardens abound with plants that have become tame through our
constant exposure to them, so that they evoke for us a sense of
home, of place, no matter how distant or exotic their origins
really were.